How Many People Pay Obamacare Tax In Your State?

Elizabeth McKee, Americans For Tax Reform

Over 8 million Americans are hit with Obamacare's individual mandate tax, according to official IRS data. 20 million Americans are hit with Obamacare's taxes on Health Savings Accounts. 30 million Americans are hit with Obamacare's taxes on Flexible Spending Accounts. The Senate GOP health bill repeals these Obamacare taxes and many others. A state-by-state breakdown is below:

Alabama

102,080 Alabama households paid the Obamacare individual mandate tax.

62,867 Alabamans have a Health Savings Account. All are subject to Obamacare’s HSA taxes.

54,026 school-aged children have disabilities. Flexible Spending Accounts are hit with Obamacare taxes that are especially harmful to special needs families

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Thanks to "bracket creep," the inflation of the 1970s pushed millions of taxpayers into higher tax brackets even though their inflation-adjusted incomes were not rising. To help offset this tax increase and also to improve incentives to work, save, and invest, President Reagan proposed sweeping tax rate reductions during the 1980s. What happened? Total tax revenues climbed by 99.4 percent during the 1980s, and the results are even more impressive when looking at what happened to personal income tax revenues. Once the economy received an unambiguous tax cut in January 1983, income tax revenues climbed dramatically, increasing by more than 54 percent by 1989 (28 percent after adjusting for inflation).